Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Admitting rap music or videos in criminal trials is highly prejudicial, especially bc "by no means is rap the exclusive genre for glorification of criminal activity." Some examples from the Court: search.txcourts.gov/Case.aspx?cn...
Next you're going to tell me that Joe didn't shoot his woman down.
That's... surprisingly reasonable for Texas.
Kinda shocking to omit Swift’s “No Body, No Crime”…
Ok but the court here is unfairly eliding the fact that Bob Marley did *not* shoot the deputy
A shocking judicial recognition that fiction exists in the arts, but I'm surprised they didn't call them "perjurious."
As somebody who doesn't know anything or care about rap, if I was on a jury and a prosecutor put on a music video I would 100% think it was like when a substitute teacher put on a movie in school because they have no curriculum.
This is Reno erasure
"classically" - 😂 Although, yes, Odysseus absolutely would have.
Dear gods I hummed a few bars from every single one of those songs in order